I know I said the 1st disclaimer was for all the chapters, but I'm doing this just to be safe.
Diclaimer: I don't own Naruto and probably never will.
Chapter 1: Itachi sensei
Itachi hated mornings all the time. He always slept in because he stayed out so late. Itachi hadn't even opened his eyes yet, but they already burned from the dim light that seemed to break through his eyelids. He already knew the first person who would speak to him and what he would say.
"Son, you need to buy an alarm clock!" Fugaku always said that in the morning. Itachi always responded the same way, telling him that every alarm clock he has received or bought has been broken whenever he was irritable in the morning.
"I hate being the oldest son." Itachi seldom wished that, especially out loud. But he is like us all when he wants to sleep in, but when he has a responsibility to do he does it, even if he occasionally procrastinates.
Itahci finally sat up after about five minutes of refusing and rubbed his eyes. Once he opened them he closed them tightly again. No preparation in the world could prepare him for the glare that the sun reflected off the floor. This made him feel even more foul that before. Then he heard footsteps coming down the hallway, making way towards his room.
"Look father, I'm not buying another clock, I just need to get my sleeping pattern back in check." Itachi spoke in an aggravated tone.
"Fugaku-san left a while ago, he asked me to check up on you if you slept in too late." A familiar voice said.
Itachi managed to open his eyes enough to see who had just spoken with him and a smirk appeared on his face, "Shisui-kun."
Shisui smiled, "I was beginning to worry that that mission had killed you. I heard Fachisi was quite the fugitive."
Itachi's smile faded, "Shisui, what time is it?"
"It's almost noon."
Itachi nearly shouted in fury, but his consciousness, common sense, and pride helped him keep his composure. "I'm going to meet Hokage-sama, I'll see you when I get back, there's something I would like to speak with you about."
Shisui left and Itachi scuffled through his clothes, looking for then ANBU outfit, which he couldn't recall where he had thrown it the night before. The window still seemed to make Itachi irritable; the light was still relentless. His room wasn't that big, so he didn't have much space for anything. At the bottom of the clothes pile he found his cleaner ANBU outfit and began to wear the clothes, then once he finished, he charged out the door heading for a meeting, which he was already late.
Sarutobi sat at a table, sitting across from Katsiru and Han. Itachi opened the door slowly, walked in, closed the door and sat down in between his other two squad members.
"You're late, Itachi-kun." Sarutobi mumbled.
"I know." Itachi said calmly. "I apologize."
Sarutobi stood up and began pacing around, "I have to say, Fachisi was quite the fugitive, killing three of our highest rank on ninja and managing to elude us until nightfall. Yet three chuunin took him down. I had my doubts at first but I must say…it was a good idea for Katsiru to volunteer your squad for this."
Itachi glared at Katsiru but said nothing.
"Anyway, I have another assignment for you three, individually though. Katsiru, I believe that there is some talk of a possible break through the southern wall of Konoha. We have yet to trust Cloud just yet so we are going to keep our defenses tight. Han, I want you to patrol the western area."
Katsiru and Han bowed and took their leave. Sarutobi looked at Itachi, "Your lateness is not exactly the most admirable thing for a member of ANBU, much less a captain. Perhaps you should get an alarm clock."
Itachi could almost swear that Saruitobi could feel the anger emanating from him, but he looked the third in the eye and responded, "Yes, Hokage-sama. What assignment do you want of me?"
"I would like for you to supervise the training of a few genin. It won't be much of a task. You will be paid a good sum of money, which you can use to buy a clock." Sarutobi grabbed his tobacco pipe, lit it, popped it into his mouth and began to enjoy a good smoke as Itachi left the room.
"Supervise genin?" Itachi thought. "I'm not a sensei, and I doubt they will listen to me." Itachi looked up and smirked, "They might make good punching bags. They'll train with me."
The memorial stone was almost always vacant for training purposes. The only person who visited it on a normal basis was Hatake Kakashi, and as a matter of fact, he was standing in front of the memorial when Itachi arrived.
"Hello Kakashi-san." Itachi said blankly.
"Oh, hello Itachi-kun. What brings you here?" Kakashi scratched the back of his head and smiled. Itachi noticed that in his right hand, he held a copy of the newest Make-out paradise book.
"I can't believe you read that crap." Itachi muttered. "That old pervert isn't much better, but it seems a waste of time to read things like that."
Kakashi put the book into his back pocket nervously, "It's not just about the explicit things. It has a good story behind it as well!" Kakashi soon regained his composure. "You never did answer my question, what brings you here?"
"I'm supposed to supervise some genin in their training. They should be arriving soon. Hokage-sama assigned this to me personally." Itachi looked to the side with a bit of a cross look on his face.
"I wouldn't doubt it." Kakashi laughed. "I would ask you to have fun with it. I plan on teaching some genin soon enough." He looked over to the memorial and noticed the shadow next to it. "It's getting a bit late for me to be here. I'd better take my leave."
Itachi also noticed the shadow, and looked at the jonin quizzically, "It's only noon."
"A shinobi's work is never done. I'll see you some other time." Kakashi waved goodbye and walked down the hill. Moments after they left two boys and one girl made their way up the hill. Once they reached the top, they all looked at Itachi for a moment, then the tallest of them spoke.
"You're our replacement sensei?" He asked.
"It depends on how you act. If you don't stay in line, I will be an enemy instead of sensei." Itachi was already to activate his sharingan, because that kid looked like he was already going to pounce on him.
The kid who just spoke wore a tan t-shirt, and wore his headband on his right arm. He had blue pants, and his sandals were the standard blue ninja sandals. He had brown hair which was very short to the point where he would have a buzz-cut if it were any shorter, and hazel eyes. The look on his face showed that of a belligerent person. Even though he was twelve, he almost reached Itachi in height, but it still didn't matter to him.
The second boy was a bit shorter, and seemed to not want to make eye contact with anyone. He wore a red coat with gold buttons, and since it was open, his white shirt shown from beneath it. He had black pants and also had the same sandals. His hair was also black and it reached down to his shoulder-blades, and his eyes were brown.
The girl had red hair, and a pink, short-sleeved shirt. She wore blue pants and also had the same sandals. She had a tattoo of a heart on her left shoulder, and her eyes looked extremely timid and her hair went down to her waist.
Itachi looked at the timid kunochi, "You're a little young for tattoos aren't you?"
The girl looked at Itachi and spoke softly, "I had a boyfriend when I was in the academy and…his older brother knew how to make tattoos and I…um….decided to get it."
Itachi nodded. He was inclined to ask if she was too young to have a boyfriend, but he wasn't here to get a life story. He looked at the three genin and folded his arms. "Okay, so what are your names?"
The tallest one spoke first. "My name is Jakano Sizoro, and this guy here is Chinai Nibiri."
"I want him to introduce himself." Itachi said coldly.
The girl spoke up, "Um….he can't talk…he's a mute."
Itachi wanted to strangle each of the genin after that, then go give a piece of his mind to the sensei who decided to make a rain check, then to Sarutobi who assigned him to this in the first place.
"I see, so what's your name?" Itachi asked the girl.
"Unica Rei." She whispered.
"So Sizoro, Nibiri, and Rei." Itachi thought aloud. "Let's begin. I want each of you to spar against me. You'll have five minutes to knock me down. If you can do that, I can teach you new things. In other words, I doubt you'll learn anything today."
Sizoro scowled, "You underestimate us!"
"You underestimate me." Itachi said darkly.
Nibiri looked Itachi in the eyes, shook his head and looked away again. Sizoro was the first one to make a move, and he leapt in with a seemingly deadly kick. Itachi moved the foot away with a gentle push with his left hand. Nibiri took advantage of Itachi's short preoccupation and performed a few quick hand seals and small balls of fire erupted from his mouth. Sizoro turned around quickly and began attacking in almost relentless taijutsu maneuvers, yet Itachi managed to dodge every attack from both Nibiri and Sizoro. Rei finally decided to attack as well. She created two clones and the three charged to join in the attack.
"You three know how to work as a team, I'll give you that." Itachi spoke with a blank face. "Your attacks aren't exactly the greatest, however."
Sizoro performed some hand seals and the earth wrapped itself around Itachi's legs. Then Nibiri performed the same maneuver as before and incinerated their temporary sensei. However, to their disappointment, a log was in its place. The three rookies looked around nervously in attempts to find their challenger, when Itachi rushed in and knocked Sizoro back with two punches that launched him into the air and a kick to the abdomen that sent Sizoro into a nearby tree. Rei was caught off guard with this and leapt back and created two more clones to add to the two she already had. Nibiri performed a few different hand seals and caught Itachi in a genjutsu maneuver, which made Itachi see a copy of him, ready to attack.
"Not a bad genjutsu technique, for a genin." Itachi blinked and the genjutsu lost its effect. "Three more minutes, rookies."
Sizuro looked at Itachi in complete rage. He performed a few more hand seals and before he could touch the earth, Itachi grabbed his wrist and used his opponent's momentum against him to flip him on his back. Nibiri performed another fire technique, Itachi recognized it as Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu. Itachi quickly moved out of the way to avoid the giant flame. Nibiri was one step ahead but still missed for he soon found out it was a clone he was targeting. Itachi walked out from behind the memorial and sighed.
"You people need to think more than one step ahead of your opponent. I haven't had to use anything that merits you three. I thought this would be entertaining, but now I'm surprised you all made it to genin."
Sizoro leapt towards Itachi and began to use furious taijutsu combinations, and Rei and her clones assisted the best they could, while Nibiri used ninjutsu support. However, Itachi still remained unimpressed and not entertained. Itachi leapt on top of one of the logs and began to hop back and forth to dodge Nibiri's fire attacks. Sizoro met Itachi on top of one of the logs and continued using taijutsu, and once the combinations stopped, Itachi looked at the rest of them and frowned.
"You three have one more minute. Use it wisely." Itachi moved from the top of the log to the ground, and Sizoro used another earth style technique, which launched small rocks to take Itachi off guard. Rei created several more copies and was now swamped by about ten Reis while taking elemental attacks from both Nibiri and Sizoro. Then Itachi performed a roundhouse kick so powerful it mowed down all the clones, leapt in the air and knocked Sizoro off his feet with a devastating punch to the face, then dashed over to Nibiri, twisted his arm behind him and pushed him to the ground.
"Time's up." Itachi mumbled. He brushed himself off, and the three genin rose to their feet.
"What did we do wrong?" Sizoro shouted in anger. Nibiri shook his head and looked at his teammates with pity. Then he looked at the sky for a moment, then focussed his attention to Itachi. Rei merely looked away in bashfulness.
Itachi pulled one kunai and shuriken out. "You see these?" He asked. Everyone nodded. "These are to be used. If you had used them, you might have been able to hit me, because you use these to catch me off guard." The three genin merely glanced at the ground.
"So what have you all learned?" Itachi folded his arms after he put the tools away.
"That you're a son of a…" Sizoro stopped quickly when he saw Itachi's eyes change from normal to sharingan. Then Sizoro shouted in disbelief. "You're one of those Uchiha? No wonder we couldn't win!"
Itachi chuckled inside of his mind, agreeing with Sizoro for the first time. Then he responded, "Just because I am an Uchiha doesn't mean anything. You still could have been able to hit me if you had used more than your own hands and feet." Then he looked at Nibiri. "And you, you seem to be able to perform jutsu that is well ahead from a genin that just graduated. I suggest you keep it up and learn a few new tricks. Well, I'm leaving. You've got your lesson for today."
Itachi hated Katsiru.
Katsiru had invited Han, Shisui, and Itachi to come and meet at a restaurant somewhere in the southern part of town, and Katsiru sent a message to Itachi at the last minute telling him that they have already started. And of all things, the messenger delivered it to Sasuke rather than the person who it was meant to belong to. Katsiru was a dead man.
Katsiru and Han were both two years older than Itachi, however as awkward as it would be for most people to command two people older than you, it didn't bother Itachi in the slightest. The three of them were chuunin, and were all currently fine with their rank.
Itachi put on his everyday clothes and left for the restaurant. Then Fugaku called for Itachi right before the ANBU captain left the Uchiha compound.
"Yes father?" Itachi asked.
"I really wish you would tell your mother and I when you decide to leave." Fugaku folded his arms and looked at Itachi crossly.
"I'm just going to meet with Shisui and the others. I won't be gone long."
"You're also never at home. You're either on a mission or hanging out with your friends. In two days, we are having a family dinner. You will join us."
Itachi was extremely reluctant about responding it in the way his father wanted to hear, but gave in nonetheless. He just prayed that Sarutobi didn't give him any lengthy missions so that he can keep his family off his back.
Itachi had finally made it. Shisui was the first to notice Itachi, and waved to him to let him know where they were. Itachi sat down next to Han and looked at the menu. Then put the menu down. "I'll just have some ramen."
The night was far too long for Itachi, and he had a major headache. All Katsiru could talk about was his boring mission once they received their food. Itachi was halfway done with his bowl of ramen by the time Katsiru got halfway into his story.
"So," Katsiru continued, "We were standing on top of the wall, I was halfway asleep when someone decided to pull a prank on me and push me off the wall, and when I did…"
When Katsiru got into a story, he got into a story. So much so that when Katsiru told about how he managed to stop himself from meeting a fated death with the dirt, he made an arm motion that splattered Itachi's hot ramen all over Itachi's face.
Itachi hated Katsiru.
A/N: There's the official first chapter of my story. How'd you like it? Review and tell me what I need to fix.
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